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It’s publication day for Applying Linguistics In Illness and HealthcareContexts! Been a long time coming! vm.tiktok.com/WDmPRd/

I could not be prouder of the volume!

Today, you'll get little previews and snippets from each chapter.

@BloomsburyLing

As a special treat, you get 35% off by entering 'GLR TW4' at bloomsbury.com/uk/applying-li…

A massive THANK YOU to all the brilliant scholars who created the volume (mentions to follow), to @professorliwei1 for the push, and to @BloomsburyLing for publishing it!

Hopefully of interest to @TransformMedEd @UCLAppliedLing @UCLanguageLab @ANU_ICH @MHESME @NNMHRmed @lachcomms @health_sig @UCLMentalHealth @UCLPsychiatry @UCLLangCog @c_tru_research @MQmentalhealth @HealthFdn @Comm_in_Care

Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts
@dianaslade1 @enrodney @professorliwei1 @BloomsburyLing #acwri #AppliedLinguistics #HealthCommunication

The Introduction is #OpenAccess here: bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/5e87322…

#AppliedLinguistics #HealthCommunication

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Part I The experience of Illness

#LivedExperience #MedHum

Chapter 1 is on Voice-hearing and impoliteness

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@FilippoVarese @elenasemino

Chapter 2 focuses on diabulimia online

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@GavinBrookes26

Chapter 3 explores the discourses of postnatal depression in different domains

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@RubriKarrie

Chapter 4 interrogates the language of a diagnostic tool for pain - the McGill Pain Questionnaire

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@HardieResearch @elenasemino

Part II Relating to each other

#MedHum #Interactions #HealthCommunication

Chapter 5 investigates what makes HIV/AIDS consultations work well in Malawi

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@ChimbwetePhiri

Chapter 6 looks at how empathy works in online chat counselling

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@wyke_stommel @joycelamerichs

Chapter 7 discusses the multiple functions that narratives perform in illness contexts

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@MiriamLocher

Part III Illness in the mass media

#PublicHealthComms #SciComm

Chapter 8 explores how metaphors in the media, especially War metaphors, can lead to stigma in the context of obesity

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@koteyko_nelya @dbatanasova

Chapter 9 focuses on the perils of communicating risk in a way that encourages the right kinds of public behaviour

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@ChrisTangkcl @LangCogBe

Part IV Professional practices and concerns

#ProfessionalComms #doc2doc

Chapter 10 shows how receptionist triaging in GP can be improved with a small change in language

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@rein_ove @LizStokoe

Chapter 11 focuses on doctors' understandings of the role of culture in their professional practice

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@MarianVicUni

Chapter 12 is on the barriers to good end-of-life and palliative care in GP

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@joelleloew @MacGPSarah @ke_weetman

Chapter 13 illuminates how dominant definitions of suicide may impact healthcare practice

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@d_galasinski @jziolkowska1

And @mellojonny closes the volume with reflections on the role of language in primary care from a GP perspective

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That's all folks! I hope you enjoyed this little twitter launch.

And don't forget: there is a discount code which gets you 35% off. Enter 'GLR TW4' at bloomsbury.com/uk/applying-li…

@BloomsburyLing @UCLAppliedLing

@MTvonRohr @MiriamLocher @MTvonRohr! I didn't know you had Twitter! I would have mentioned you too!

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